Bailit Health Purchasing has assisted over 50 clients since 1997 to improve methods for purchasing or regulating health and human services. A partial listing of these clients can be found below, as well as examples of the types of work that we have conducted for our clients.

Maine Governor´s Office of Health Policy and Finance
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy Financing
California Working Committee on Waiver Development and Medi-Cal Expansion (Blue Shield of California Foundation)

Client:
Maine Governor´s Office of Health Policy and Finance

Challenge:
Develop a strategy for implementation of federal health reform requirements.

Response:
Bailit developed a framework for the design and implementation of a health insurance exchange and consideration of how payment reform might be advanced through the state’s health exchange contracting strategy. Ongoing work will include further development of the exchange model, analysis of the impact on Medicaid and opportunities in long-term care, and further analysis of opportunities to improve quality and public health protections under the PPACA.

Client:
Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing

Challenge:
Assist agency in its efforts to modernize its Medicaid program and prepare for potential health care reform.

Response:
As consultants to the Department’s eligibility modernization efforts, Bailit worked collaboratively with senior Department staff to consider eligibility modernization strategies, facilitated several meetings of the Department’s Eligibility Modernization Task Force, which included county agency heads and consumer advocates, and developed a plan for short, medium and long-term interventions.

Client:
California Working Committee on Waiver Development and Medi-Cal Expansion (Blue Shield of California Foundation)

Challenge:
Provide strategies to maximize the federal government’s financing of coverage expansion in California.

Response:
Bailit provided expertise in utilizing an 1115 waiver to maximize federal funding of programs and populations not traditionally paid for through the Medicaid program, including coverage of childless adults.  Bailit additionally conducted a survey of county Medicaid spending to determine if there was potential for additional federal revenue maximization strategies.

Payment Reform

Performance Monitoring & Improvement

Value-Based Purchasing

Patient-Centered Medical Home

Behavioral Health & Development Disability Services

Long Term Services & Supports

Health Care Reform

April 4, 2013 - Providence, RI
"Innovative Plan Designs in Response to Rising Health Care Costs" Rhode Island Small Employer Health Insurance Task Force
- Michael Bailit

March 13, 2013, Philadelphia, PA
"Capitation and Shared Savings Models" 2013 National Medical Home Summit
- Michael Bailit

February 25, 2013 - Boston, MA
"Massachusetts Health Care Reform, Phase 2" Massachusetts Municipal Association Annual Meeting
- Marge Houy

January 11, 2013, Bloomington, MN
"Understanding the Road to Payment Reform in Health Care" Minnesota Health Action Group
- Michael Bailit

December 1, 2012 - Greenville, SC
"Integrating Behavioral Health Care into the Patient-Centered Medical Home" Society of Teachers of Medicine Conference
- Megan Burns

October 24, 2012 - Columbus, OH
"Payment Reform: What is Happening in Other States?" Health Policy Institute of Ohio
- Michael Bailit